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61st Annual Meeting
Southern Chapter Medical Library Association
October 5-9, 2011
Augusta, GA

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Continuing Eduation Courses

Continuing Education courses will be held on Thursday October 6, 2011. All courses will be held at the Augusta Marriott.

The Beauty of Some Rights Reserved: An Introduction to Copyright, Publishing, and Creative Commons

Instructor: Molly Kleinman, University of Michigan
Course Description:As librarians we want to be ambassadors, not gatekeepers, to information, but in the digital age, we frequently find that copyright law limits what our users can access and what we are free to share. Creative Commons licenses work in combination with copyright to help authors and creators allow certain uses of their work without requiring permission. Already popular among artists and musicians, Creative Commons is gaining momentum in academia. This session will provide an overview of copyright basics, and introduction to author rights and publishing agreements, then cover the principles behind Creative Commons, explain the different licenses, and explore some of the ways that librarians and our users can benefit from Creative Commons as educators, authors, and creators.
Lectures, Slides, Learning Videotape, Discussion, and Hands-on Exercises
http://cech.mlanet.org/node/475

Time: 8 am – noon. Hamilton B
MLA CE Credit: 4 hours
Cost: $110

Statistical Literacy for Medical Librarians: Swimming in a Whirlpool of Conflicting Medical Claims

Instructor: Steve Simon, P. Mean Consulting
Course Description:Librarians in the health sciences and related fields need to know how to interpret literature that can lead to evidence for making informed medical decisions. Statistical literacy is a vital component of this knowledge. Librarians need to understand whether a study's hypothesis, research design, and data analysis support the author's conclusions. The concepts of research design, understanding the numbers, interpreting the results, and fitting the pieces together will be taught in this eight hour course. It is proposed for continuing education at MLA Annual 2012.
Lecture, Demonstration, Discussion, Dialog, Hands-on Exercises, and Other
http://cech.mlanet.org/node/464

Time: 8 am – 5 pm. Walsh A
MLA CE Credit: 8 with reading prior to course meeting
Cost: $175 (lunch included)

Information Anywhere: Mobile Technology, Libraries and Health

Instructor: Max Anderson, NN/LM Greater Midwest Region
Description: This four-hour class is an overview of the plethora of mobile devices available today and how they impact libraries and medicine. We will discuss Apple’s products (including iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad), Blackberry devices, and Google Android-powered phones. Popular uses and applications for these devices, with particular emphasis on those that make use of the products of the National Library of Medicine will be highlighted. Students will learn what it takes to create mobile applications and websites, and will participate in a hands-on activity to create a simple mobile website.
Lecture, Demonstration, Slides, Discussion, Hands-on Exercises, and Problem-based
http://cech.mlanet.org/node/582

Time: 8 am – noon. Walsh B
MLA CE Credit: 4 hours
Cost: $110

Electronic Collection Development for Health and Medicine E-Libraries

Instructor: Diane Kovacs, Kovacs Consulting - http://www.kovacs.com
Description: In this hands-on course you will learn to create an e-library collection development plan for free and fee-based Web-accessible resources for health and medicine. Students will focus on developing a collection plan for one library patron group of their choice, for the kind of library they work in (e.g., hospital, medical center, medical school, allied health programs, public libraries, academic libraries, other special libraries, etc.) Patron groups may include: Healthcare consumers, physicians of general or particular specialty, nurses, pharmacists, medical school students, allied health students, biomedical researchers, etc. Participants will end the course with a good draft electronic library collection development plan. This is a five part course. Each part includes lecture, discussion and hands-on activities that will step participants through creating or assessing a collection plan for developing a health and medicine e-library collection: 1. collection plan abstract or introduction 2. collection strategy 3. collection organization plan 4. collection maintenance plan We will use examples of good health and medical e-libraries on the Web to illustrate each part. Participants will receive a print workbook to use during the course session as well. The syllabus is also online at http://www.kovacs.com/mlacecolldev.html. The instructor has written "Electronic Collection Development for Consumer Health Information" which was published in the Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, v. 7, issue 4, 2003 as well as Chapter 4. "Medical Information Resources" in The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines by Kovacs, Diane K. & Robinson, Kara L. (2004) Neal-Schuman Publishers.
Lecture, Demonstration, Discussion, Hands-on Exercises, and Other
http://cech.mlanet.org/node/72

Time: 8 am – 3 pm. Room Hamilton A
MLA CE Credit: 6 (face to face) 20 total after additional e-learning instruction
Cost: $160 (lunch included)